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...principal opponent of a Brookhart renomination is Henry ("Himself") Field who operates in Shenandoah a large general store and a broadcasting station (KFNF). Using his radio to ballyhoo his goods Storekeeper Field sells seeds, prunes, typewriters, hams, shirts, overalls, shoes paints, tires, pigs et al. His bargain announcements over the air bring country crowds flocking from miles to Shenandoah, much to the dismay of shopkeepers elsewhere. Candidate Field has never been in politics before, counts on his rural customers to start...
...generals,* longtime (1877-85, 1905-11) Congressman from Ohio, onetime (1881-83) Speaker of the House; of old age; in Springfield, Ohio. Educated under the regime of the late, great President Horace Mann of Antioch College, he rose to fame as a divisional commander for General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was four times wounded. During the Spanish War. President McKinley appointed him Major General of volunteers, and he was later elected 1st Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish War Veterans. As Speaker of the House he formulated the Cloture rule. A determined foe of war, he addressed the Conference...
...Yakima, Wash, and up & down the Shenandoah Valley, U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge was last week gratefully known as "the man who saved the Winesaps." The French embargo on all fresh fruit from the U. S. (and particularly apples) was broken...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...
...When Meade and Sheridan quarreled over the function of the cavalry (Meade insisting it should be merely auxiliary to infantry, Sheridan that it should be independent ), Grant upheld Sheridan, let him build up the cavalry as a separate division of the army. Sheridan had two big jobs: policing the Shenandoah Valley and beating Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart. He cleared the Valley and on a raid behind Lee's lines Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied...